Over the past few years, banks have strongly promoted online banking and the paying of bills online. In 2003, about 50% of internet users paid bills online. In a recent survey of 250 internet users, 150 said that they pay bills online. At the 5% level of significance, test whether the proportion of internet users paying bills on

3. A survey taken showed that among 785 randomly selected subjects who completed 4 years of college, 144 smoke and 641 do not smoke (based on data from the American Medical Association). Use the 0.01 level of significance to test the claim that the rate (proportion) of smoking among those with four years of college is less tha

Consider the following hypothesis test:
Ho: u > 20 (( their is a line under this sine >))
Ha: u < 20
A sample of 50 provided a sample mean of 19.4. The population standard deviation is 2.
a. Compute the value of the test statistic.
b. What i

1. Assume there are 20 homes in the Quail Creek area and 10 of them have a security system. Four homes are selected at random:
(a) What is the probability all four of the selected homes have a security system? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.)
(b) What is the probability none of the four selected homes have a security

1. A simple random sample of five months of sales data provided the following information
Month 1 2 3 4 5
Units Sold 94 100 85 94 92
a. Develop a point estimate of the population mean number of units sold per month.
b. Develop a point estimate of the population standard deviation
2. The College Board reported the f

In a specific company, there are three levels of workers: skilled, unskilled, and manager. The owner of this company wants to know if the level of job satisfaction differs amongst the three levels of workers.
Data: 30 workers in each level are randomly selected to take the job satisfaction survey. The survey asks each worker

1. A researcher collected data from 28 individuals. Seven independent variables were used to predict a dependent variable. The value of R2 for this model was .87. When the variable X_1 and X_3 were omitted from the model, R^2 was .84. Do the variables X1 and X3 contribute to the prediction of the dependent variable? Use a .10 si

Suppose that the medical staff indicates that the results of a given laboratory procedure must be available 30 minutes after the physician submits a request for the service. In this situation, if the results arrived 30 minutes or less after the request, we regard the performance of the laboratory as timely. If results arrived mo

A computerized tutorial center at a local college wants to compare two different statistical software programs. Students going to the center are matched with other student having similar abilities in statistics (assume the matching process creates matched pairs acceptable for use with the appropriate paired test statistic for t

Critical Thinking Concept Review
1. Choose three peer C-reviewed research articles and write a short review of each of them that includes the following:
a. Write the problem statement.
b. Name the theoretical model used or briefly describe the overall conceptual model.
c. Write out the main research questions. What is the ra

In your environment (business or personal), please describe a hypothesis test related to a decision. What would be your data? What would be your null hypothesis? What would be your alternate hypothesis? What would be your Type 1 and Type 2 errors relative to your decision? Suppose you have a p-value of 0.01, what does this mean

In your environment (business or personal), please describe a hypothesis test related to a decision. What would be your data? What would be your null hypothesis? What would be your alternate hypothesis? What would be your Type 1 and Type 2 errors relative to your decision? Suppose you have a p-value of 0.01, what does this mean

Sample question:
A sample of 500 shoppers were selected in a large metropolitan to determine various information concerning consumer behavior. Among the questions asked was, "Do you enjoy shopping for clothing?"
The results are summarized in the following contigency table:
Enjoy Shopping for Clothing MALE FEMALE TOTAL
Y

Rachel's doctor suspects she is suffering from hypoglycaemia. The amount of glucose in the bloodstream varies and a person with hypoglycaemia has an average blood glucose level of less than 65 mg/dL. To determine whether Rachel is indeed hypoglycaemic the doctor sends her home with a glucose monitor to test her blood at 40 rando

I do not know how to do the following question:
"A fish wholesaler has a catch of several thousand lobsters. A prospective buyer selected 40 at random and obtained the following weights in ounces:
21.3, 21.1, 21.4, 18.8, 20.2, 19.3, 19.1, 18.3, 19.9, 22.0,
20.6, 20.7, 21.9, 20.1, 17.1, 19.3, 21.2, 18.4, 21.0, 21.6,
16.5,

#2 Choose a research article from your field. Write the five hypotheses that this study is testing. Write both the null and alternative hypotheses for each one.
#3 Imagine that you are going to conduct a study. Write the purpose of the study, research questions, and main hypotheses. Write both the null and alternative hypothe

Sample Question:
A bank a branch location a commercial district we city developed improved process serving customers noon-to 1 pm. lunch period. the waiting time (defined as the time elapsed from when the customer enters the line until he or she reaches the teller window) needs to be shortened to increase customer satisfaction.

Please see the attached MS Word document for the comparison charts.
Investigate whether there is a significant difference between these two groups in terms of their age, number of children, and education. Assume that x is .05 for a two-tailed test. Based on your analysis, write three 5-type statements summarizing your findin

The personnel director for a local manufacturing firm has received complaints from the employees in a certain shop regarding what they perceive to be inequities in the annual salary for employees who have similar performance ratings, years of service, and relevant certifications. The personnel director believes that an employee

Many times researchers preselect the value of alpha of .01 or .001. What are the factors that allow selection of either of those levels of significance?
When computing Independent Sample Test, the SPSS output contains the section stating that Confidence Interval of the Difference. What is a Confidence Interval and what is t

1. State the null and alternative hypothesis for the following situations.
a) A federal auditor believes that a health care company has overcharged its patients.
b) The editor of a magazine believes that the mean income of subscribers to its magazine is $75,000.
c) An operations manager must maintain machines that produce 50

Question 1
An experiment was conducted to investigate the transition pressure of bismuth as a function of temperature. Listed below in Table 3.1 are the temperature (x) in degrees Centigrade and the difference in pressure (y) from 25,000 bars in hundreds of bars for 23 samples. (So if y = 3.66 then the pressure is 25, 000 + 3

A researcher would like to determine whether an over-the-counter cold medication has an effect on mental alertness. A sample of n = 16 participants is obtained and each person is given a standard dose of the medication one hour before being tested in a driving simulation task. for the general population reaction time scores on t

Recent results suggest that children with ADHD also tend to watch more TV than children who are not diagnosed with the disorder. Tto examine this relationship a researcher obtains a random sample of n=36 children 8 to 12 years old who have been diagnosed with ADHD. Each child is asked to keep a journal recording how much time is

4.44) A four year study of bottled water brands conducted by the natural resources defense council found that 25% of bottled water is just tap water packaged in a bottle. Consider a sample of five bottled water brands and let x equal the number of these brands that use tap water.
a. explain why x is a binomial random variable

The Stocks included in the S & P 500 are those of large publicly held companies that trade on either the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. In 2008, the S&P 500 was down 38.5%, but what about financial compensation (salary, bonuses, stock options, etc.) to the 500 CEOs that run the companies? To learn more about the mean CEO

Century National Bank
Refer to the Century National Bank data (attached).
Is it reasonable that the distribution of checking account balances approximates a normal probability distribution? Determine the mean and the standard deviation for the sample of 60 customers. Compare the actual distribution with the theoretical di

Use the traditional method of hypothesis testing unless otherwise specified
1. A traffic safety expert report indicated that 21-24 years age group, 31.58% of traffic fatalities were victims who had used a seat belt. Victims who were not wearing a seat belt accounted for 59.83% of the deaths, and the status of the rest was unk